All Posts Tagged With: "copyright"
Hierarchy or the Market
In an article in last June’s Freeman, I applied some ideas from the socialist-calculation debate to the private corporation and examined the extent to which it is an island of calculational chaos in the market economy. I’d like to expand that line of analysis now and apply some common free-market insights on knowledge and incentives [...]
1Apr2008 | Kevin A. Carson | 3 comments | ContinuedMises on Copyrights
The widespread reproduction and “sharing” of copyrighted music on the Internet led a friend to ask me what Ludwig von Mises would have thought about the situation. The more I pondered the question, the more I concluded that Mises would have considered this just another case where copyright law must play catch-up with new technology. [...]
1Jun2004 | Bettina Bien Greaves | 2 comments | ContinuedCapital Letters
Two Libertarianisms To the Editor: Jim Peron, in “Are There Two Libertarianisms?” (June 2001), sees moralism and consequentialism as two sides of a coin. He writes, “A free society is not only right but it works.” Surely there is mutual support between them. Nonetheless, there is a fundamental divide as to primacy. Moralism aims at [...]
1Oct2001 | FEE Admin | 0 comments | ContinuedRights in Ideas Infringe Rights in Tangible Property
Ilana Mercer is a freelance editorial columnist based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Prior to the U.S. Court of Appeal’s decision in the Napster case, all indications were that the parties to the litigation were adjusting to a reality in which copyright might become a thing of the past. TVT Records, one of the largest U.S. [...]
1Jul2001 | Ilana Mercer | 21 comments | ContinuedThe Fire of Invention: Civil Society and the Future of the Corporation
John Hood is president of the John Locke Foundation, a nonprofit think tank based in Raleigh, North Carolina, and author of The Heroic Enterprise. The Corporation, as we know it–and we know it from every aspect of our lives–was invented; it did not come to be of itself.” With those words from Oscar Handlin begins [...]
1Jul1998 | John Hood | 0 comments | ContinuedA Free-Market Case Against Open Immigration?
Recently, upon finishing Leonard Read’s superb book Anything That’s Peaceful (FEE, 1964), I felt a surge of thankfulness and honor. I’m thankful that such a wise man lived and wrote, and I’m honored to now lead the organization that he founded. Leonard Read was truly a great liberal—a liberal, of course, in the original and [...]
1Oct1997 | Donald J. Boudreaux | 5 comments | ContinuedHome, Home on the Internet
Dr. Boustead, who recently received his doctorate in economics, is interested in law and economics. Sometimes, all you really need is a better fence. While that advice seems sensible for an 1880s cattle rancher, it might appear less relevant to a pioneer on a novel frontier like today’s Internet. After all, straying cattle hardly compare [...]
1Nov1996 | Thomas Boustead | 1 comment | Continued-
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